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George Hughes, 41, a Negro, stood in the prisoners' box in the courthouse at Sherman, "Athens of Texas" (1920 population, 15,031), famed locally for its cultured, 95% white people, its two colleges, 27 churches, fine schools. He pleaded guilty to the charge of assaulting white Mrs. Drew Farlow, young farmer's wife. Outside in the square milled a crowd of Shermanites and thrillseekers from the environs. They knew that: 1) No matter what the prisoner said, Texas law requires a taking of testimony; 2) Mrs. Farlow, as a witness, was to be carried to the courthouse on a stretcher...
...February 23 Harvard's Costa Rica Expedition for plant collections, under the leadership of Dr. C. W. Dodge, Director of the Farlow Herbarium, returned to San Jose, Costa Rica's highland capital, after a month and half's sojourn in Guanacaste. With two, huge, native-made chests of cedar and bulky presses, all loaded with the 5000 specimens, the colectors felt repaid for their hours of horse-back travel and forest excursions on foot, where it was generally necessary to cut a way through tangled vegetation with a machete, the typical, sword-like knife of the New World tropics...
...because of the continual moisture, supplied by low-lying clouds. Here scores of odd lichens, curious, climbling epiphytic plants, growing on all available tree trunks in the darkly forested places gave witness to the unending persistency of jungle life, besides affording rich material for the steel cases of the Farlow and Gray Herbaria back in Cambridge. Not equipped for extensive zoological work, the collectors, nevertheless, bore home some animals, including bats, reptiles, insects, and amphibians for the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...Mediaeval Academy of America; Dr. J. D. Wild, Jr., instructor in Philosophy, holder of an M.A. degree from Harvard in 1925, whose project will be studies of the philosophical works of George Berkeley, and research in European libraries and consultation with authorities; Dr. C. W. Dodge, curator of the Farlow Herbarium, who will complete a work on the Lichen Flora of Costa Rica; and Dr. C. C. Pratt, assistant professor of Psychology and tutor in the Division of Philosophy, who will continue an investigation of the expressive properties of musical structure by means of methods which are being developed...
Botany 15Botan Mus 20 at 11 Botany 17 Farlow Herbarium at 2 Education B26 Palfrey House 3-5 Egyptology 2 Egyptian Office at 2 Boston Museum of Fine Arts German 20b Sever 6 3-5 History 18 Sever 2b at 11 Psychology 2b Boston Psychopathic Hospital...